My 4 Foot Planted Tank in Feb 2010

Volume 45 Gallons US 170 Litres UK Lighting 2 x 38 watt 6500K T5s 1 x Hitachi Aquarium T5 Substrate 15 Kgs Golden Sand 1 Kg iron soil 5 Kgs White Plant Gravel Co2 DIY C02 through the mechanical filter

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[denisesfeathers]

I am thinking of putting live plants in my fish tanks. Can you recommend a good starter plant. I have guppies platys and Fire mouth cichlids.

[neilbetter]

@denisefeathers the 'amazon sword' is quite a hardy plant to try out. Java, fern, Hygrophila which is the large leaf ones that you can see on the left and right of the tank are also quite easy to grow as is Hydrilla which grows in the wild. For most of the others you would need special lighting, substrate and a lot of care. I wouldn't recommend picking any of the grass type plants or the red ones without very high lighting and tank setup specially for plants.

[neilbetter]

The guppies and platys would be happy with the plants but i'm not sure about the fire mouths.....they may be plant eaters and cause some trouble....though the big leaf hardy ones i mentioned could survive them

[chris23a1]

Braveheart music, nice!

[neilbetter]

@chris23a1 haha yup..its a great soundtrack. Thanks!

[supperlolz24]

are yo sure your spoused to have guppys and angels together?

[FightingWolv]

Truly beautiful tank, i hope to someday get my tank like that. That's a pleco in the background right?

[jkennedy1007]

nice set-up bud =)

[denisesfeathers]

@denisesfeathers the fish are in three different tanks not together. I have two 30 gallons and one 10 gallon tank.